Empowering Future Leaders

Carletta S. Hurt,Ph.D./Ed.D. is an award-winning educator, producer, and mentor, with over two decades of experience in education and supporting girls of color. She is a 2024 4.0 Angel Syndicate Fellow, 4.0 Essentials Fellow, and an American University Humanities Truck Fellow. A self-proclaimed SUDOKU champion, wordsmith at Scrabble and Words with Friends, she has worked as a teacher, administrator, and school counselor.

A graduate of The University of the District of Columbia, University of Southern Mississippi, Oglethorpe University and Georgia State University, Carletta works with the District of Columbia Public Schools supporting students in middle and high school. She has presented nationally and regionally on topics related to student success, equity in schools, and supporting girls of color. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) named Carletta the 2016 DC School Counselor of the Year. She also received the Bell Award (Education) in 2017 from the Oglethorpe Alumni Association and the Mentor of the Year in 2019 from the National Black MBA Association - DC Chapter.

Carletta is writing research articles that center on the experiences of Black girls in leadership and entrepreneurship; promoting her social justice documentary, Clothed Minds (www.clothedminds.com); launching a coaching platform for black girls, Coaching Connections, (www.coachingconnections.org), publisher of BELLE Teen Magazine, and raising her son.